Sentences with phrase «future litigation purposes»

Don't answer their phone calls, block all of their emails (or send them to a folder reserved for future litigation purposes), and don't reply to their instant messages whether in a chat program, on your cell phone or at a dating site.

Not exact matches

Akamai Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The release contains information about future expectations, plans and prospects of Akamai Technologies, Inc.'s management that constitute forward - looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

In many investigations this will be impossible to achieve — companies will be unable to assess the prospects of future litigation without conducting interviews or instructing experts, which means that this work is necessarily conducted for a purpose other than its use in potential future litigation.

But even if this aspect of the judgment is successfully appealed, the more intractable challenge facing companies will be to show that documents created during an internal investigation — such as interview records — were created for the «dominant purpose» of future litigation.

If the privilege is available, advantages of asserting the privilege include that the client may be prevented from making statements in a civil proceeding that could be used against him or her in future criminal or civil proceedings or private civil litigation.82 In addition, testifying in a civil or criminal proceeding may, under certain circumstances, amount to a waiver of the Fifth Amendment privilege for purposes of the same proceeding and any future proceedings.83 Conversely, risks of asserting the privilege include that adverse inferences may, under certain circumstances, be drawn in civil or administrative proceedings from an individual's assertion of Fifth Amendment rights in a prior civil or administrative proceeding.84 Moreover, an individual's assertion of the privilege in a civil proceeding could factor into law enforcement's charging decisions.

I navigate these various decisions and guidelines by working in collaboration with my clients as to various ways to claim their respective inventions (e.g., claiming non-natural claim elements where needed to illustrate patentably eligible subject matter, or alternatively looking for appropriate arguments that meet the USPTO's guidelines), proper development of a patent specification that can be used for prosecution and litigation purposes (e.g., good actual, prophetic and comparative examples to illustrate the novelty and nonobviousness of the invention while still maintaining a broad claim scope of protection for future enforcement), and continual review of the client's patent landscape (via competitive and white space analyses and updates) to look for additional IP opportunities.

Legitimate purposes can include providing certainty to particular interest groups, saving the expense of time consuming litigation, validating mistaken assumptions about future developments in the common law, striking a balance between interest groups and ensuring unimpeded commercial development.